Safety-harness for children.



PATENTED Janina-904. A. wmsi SAFETY HARNESS FOR. GHI'LfiREN.

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principal object, naturally, is to hold the child UNITED" STATES AUGUSTVVEIS, OF KARLSRUHE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ULSAMER, OF GALLIPOLIS, OHIO.

I ate'nted April 26 1964.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK SAFETY-HARNESS FOB'GHILDREN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 758,123, dated April 26,1904.

Application filed July 29, 1902. Serial No. 117,483. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, Aueus'r Wins, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,residing at Karlsruhe, in the Grand Duchy of Baden and Empire ofGermany, have invented a new and useful Safety-Harness for Children, ofwhich the following is a specification. Y f

This invention relates to safety-harness for children. Devices of thisclassare commonly employed for the purpose of holding restless childrensafely in position upon chairs, in baby-carriages, swings, and the like,and the safely and prevent injury by falling to the ground. My presentinvention, while fully recognizing the importance of this feature, isalso and particularly directed to the preven tion of injury to the childby means of the harness itself. In other words, I aim to construct aharness which'shall be of the utmost simplicity, which shall fit thechild easily, so that chafing will be avoided, and by the use of whichany possibility of strain upon the back of the neck shall be avoided,such strain having been found to be especially injurious in many devicesof the class referred to which have heretofore been used. 7

To this end my invention consists in the improved construction of thesaid safety-harness, which will be hereinafter fully described, andpointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective side viewshowing my invention applied to a child in a baby-buggy. Fig. 2 is aperspective view showing the appliance detached.

Corresponding parts in both figures are indicated by similar numerals ofreference.

10 designates a body-encircling band having a buckle 11. To the upperedge of the band 10 are secured'two shoulder-straps 12 and 13, which aresubstantially parallel to each other and the rear ends of which areattached to the band 10 at no great distance from the ends thereof,while the front ends of said shoulderstraps are properly spaced fromeach other and from the center of the upper edge of the band 10, towhich they are attached.

14 and 15 designate securing-straps which are connected obliquely withthe under edge of the body-band intermediately between the front andrear ends of the shoulder-straps 12 and 13. The straps 14: and 15 areprovided with suitably-spaced perforations 18 and 19,

and to the extremities of said straps are attached connecting means,preferably books 20, which by engaging the perforations will form loopswhereby the device may be connected with some secure point ofattachment.

The operation and advantages of this inven-' tion will be readilyunderstood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with thedrawings hereto annexed. To place the harness in position upon thechild, it is only necessary to pass its arms through the shoulder-strapsand then to buckle the body-encircling band across the neck of thechild. Now it will be observed that owing to the oblique manner ofattachment of the securing-straps l4: and 15 the strain of said strapswill be obliquely'ina rearward direction upon the for- Ward portion ofthe body-encircling band, which will thus naturally settle against thewaist-line of the child, while the rear part of the said body-encirclingband will be drawn up against the back of the child. Compression of thewaist is thus absolutely avoided, and there will be no necessitywhatever for buckling the bodyencircling band tightly upon the child,because the latter, the vivacious action of 'which is invariably in aforward direction, will naturally cause the harness to settle with therequisite degree of firmness and in exactly the proper position andinvariably'with no possibility of exercising pressure against the neck.Thus there will be no undue strain at any time, the movements ofthechild will be free and comfortable, and the harness will. be retainedupon the child with the utmost security. ""More'over, the harness ifdisplaced from any cause whatever from its natural position upon thechild will quickly and readily resume such normal position when thechild simply stands up straight.

.Having thus described claim- A safety-harness comprising abody-encircling band engaging the body in front beneath the armpits andin rear across the shoulders below the neck,shoulder-strapsapproximately I0 spaced from each other and connected with the body-bandbelow the armpits of the wearer, and securing-straps attached obliquelyto the lower edge of the body-band intermediately between the front andrear ends of the shoulder-straps and exercising, when applied, adownward strain in a rearward direction upon the front portion of theharness.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my OWIII have hereto aflixedmy. signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- AUGUST WEIS.

Witnesses:

H. W. HARRIS, J OHANN VOGT.

